Scripture for Life

Scripture reflections for every Sunday

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Playing with fire

Aug 17, 2019

Scripture for Life: Unless we are zombies, life is going to present us with conflicts. Today's Scriptures call us to discern how grace and God's Spirit are at play in the conflicts that come our way.

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Faith is a verb

by Mary M. McGlone

Aug 10, 2019

Scripture for Life: This Sunday's three readings describe faith not as belief in something definitive, but radical openness to whatever God is bringing about. Faith keeps us in movement.

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Time for the long view

by Mary M. McGlone

Aug 3, 2019

Scripture for Life: Whether we picture our deathbed, remember the value of an onion, think about the futility of a dead man's big barns, or simply sit to appreciate the grandeur of nature, these August days are made for more than busyness and stuff.

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Teach us to pray

by Mary M. McGlone

Jul 27, 2019

Scripture for Life: When Jesus teaches the disciples to pray, he offers a number of phrases that work together to sum up Christian life and mission. But the gist of his teaching about prayer is that God wants to give us what will give us life.

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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Playing with fire

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Faith is a verb

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Time for the long view

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Teach us to pray

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Real presence

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Another person's skin

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Imagine

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Invitation to mission

A child's prayer and John the Baptist

Opening ourselves to the mystery

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ: Living in memory of him

Walking with the marginalized

How to hold a canopy

Ships passing in the night?

Sing Sunday, even in the summer

The church is immersed in the world

Trinity Sunday: The mystery of love

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity: All the names of love

Spreading spring sunshine

Over the bent world

The power of the story

Doctrinal preaching

The fire of your love

Every baptized believer has a gift essential to the whole church

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